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Henry Baigelman collection

Document | Accession Number: 2010.164.1

Contains documents pertaining to Henry Baigelman's participation in a jazz band called the "Happy Boys" that performed in displaced persons camps in Germany after WWII. Includes handwritten sheet music, song lyrics in Yiddish, certificates acknowledging group's performances, documentation stating that Henry Baigelman had been interned at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and a copy of a Passierschein issued to him.

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